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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Commons of the Realm. King. The commons state that the counties of Northumberland,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/22/1090
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This record is about the Commons of the Realm. King. The commons state that the counties of Northumberland,... dating from [1402] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/22/1090
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1402]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commons of the Realm.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The commons state that the counties of Northumberland, Cumberland and Newcastle Upon Tyne are greatly impoverished, and a thousand people and more have fled these counties, as a result of attacks by the Scots, flood damage, charges laid on Newcastle to find ships for the king and to provide a hundred watchmen on the city walls each night, and losses in hosts and expeditions. They request that for this reason these counties, and each person in them, might be discharged of all escapes of felons, fines, issues, amercements, tenths, fifteenths, debts, loans, accounts, and arrears of tenths, fifteenths, debts, loans and accounts, whether tried or not determined, and to let them have an allowance for this in the Exchequer.
- Nature of endorsement
- The king has granted this petition according to its tenor.
- Places mentioned
- Northumberland
- Cumberland
- Newcastle Upon Tyne, [Northumberland]
- [Scotland].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to 1402, with reference to CPR 1401-5 pp.181-2 and the two references to Rot. Parl. vol. III.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 1940
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen IV, vol. II, 1401-1405, (Public Record Office, 1905), pp.181-2 (resulting pardon)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.518a (no.17) (full edition of original petition, or of later copy) & pp.668b-669a (transcription of extract from patent roll in response to this petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061256/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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